29. Pregnancy, Postpartum and Parenting with Dr. Alyssa Berlin
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
Release Date: 09/20/2019
43. Jessica Headey Gandolfi - Harmonyum Healing
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
I am thrilled to share Jessica Headey Gandolfi's energetic healing work called Harmonyum. Harmonyum heals anxiety, trauma and depression while creating calm, clarity, focus and joy. Harmonyum targets the entire neurological system, balancing both sides of the nervous system. By taking us into a deep and intense state of relaxation, activating the "rest and digest" zone, our bodies innate self-healing mechanism is stimulated, and dramatic, powerful healing can begin at a root level. Thereby, initiating the process of regeneration activating emotional, mental, and physical healing within the...
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42. Rhowena Adolfo Patel of Healing Mama Co.
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
I'm excited to share this episode with Rhowena Adolfo Patel. She is the CEO and Founder of Healing Mama Co. which was born out of her experience as a first-time mom. She and Healing Mama Co. are on a movement to raise the standard of care for birthing people and partners during childbirth and postpartum. Check out www.healingmamaco.com for more information.
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41. Maternal Mental Health NOW Task Force Executive Director, Kelly O'Connor Kay
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
Kelly discusses the important work of the Maternal Mental Health Now Task Force (previously known as the Los Angeles County Perinatal Mental Health Task Force started in 2007). The Maternal Mental Health NOW Task Force plays a key role in helping to reduce the stigma and shame around maternal mental health depression and anxiety during pregnancy and after pregnancy. Including postpartum psychosis.
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40. Sound Medicine with Elizabeth W. Krasnoff, Ph.D.(c), MIM
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
On Episode 40 I am welcoming back Elizabeth Krasnoff. I thought it would be helpful to many listeners to hear Elizabeth and I discuss how incorporating sound, sound frequencies and music can soothe our bodies, our minds, our spirits/souls, and our emotions during these unprecedented times of COVID interrupting our daily lives and daily routines. This is such an important topic for myriad reasons.
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39. The Placenta and What It Tells Us with Harvey Kliman, M.D., Ph.D.
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
My guest on Episode 39 of Shattered Conception is Dr. Harvey Kliman who has, in addition to an M.D., holds a Ph.D. in cellular biochemistry from the University of Chicago. He is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale University School of Medicine and the Director of the Reproductive and Placental Research Unit with a special interest in infertility, pregnancy complications, pregnancy loss(es) and stillbirth.
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38. Men's Paternal Mental Health with Dr.Dan B. Singley
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
My guest on Episode 38 is Dr. Daniel B. Singley. Dr. Singley is a San Diego-based board certified psychologist and Director of The Center for Men’s Excellence. His research and practice focus on men’s mental health with a particular emphasis on reproductive psychology and the transition to fatherhood.
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37. Heart Disease and Pregnancy with Amanda Daniels
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
My guest on Episode 37 of Shattered Conception is Amanda Daniels. Amanda is a heart disease survivor, mother of three daughters and a spiritual counselor. At 18-years-old she suffered her first Heartquake™ - a term she uses to describe that moment in time when your life is forever changed - when she joined the ranks of the millions worldwide living with heart disease, and heart failure at 25.
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36. Babies Are Cosmic Author Elizabeth Carman, Ph.D.
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
My guest is Elizabeth Carman, Ph.D. In 1989, Elizabeth began exploring life before birth and interviewed mothers reporting communications with their unborn children via dreams, visions, an inner voice, feeling the child’s presence, telepathy, and a host of other announcing signs. Thousands of children also reported memories of their journey from the spiritual world to conception, life in the womb, and birth itself. These stories will draw you into a new world of wonder about consciousness before birth.
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35. Spiritual Fertility with Dr. Julie Von
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
My guest is Dr. Julie Von. Dr. Von is a Manhattan-based holistic doctor specializing in fertility who merges her medical education with intuitive-based practices. The method she developed, called Spiritual Fertility (which is also the name of her book), expresses her unique capacity and experience within both reproductive medicine and medical intuition. Dr. Julie’s work has been called evocative, eloquent, mystical, and practical. Manhattan Magazine called Julie the “baby whisperer".
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34. Pregnancy After Loss with Lindsey Henke
Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths
My guest is Lindsey Henke. Lindsey is the founder and Executive Director of Pregnancy After Loss Support. This is also a website and important resource for women and their families who go on to conceive another pregnancy after losing a pregnancy, their baby is stillborn and/or their infant dies after birth. She is a clinical social worker specializing as a reproductive mental health therapist with a focus on the grief and trauma that happens after a perinatal loss and the pregnancy that follows.
info_outlineMy guest on Episode 29 of Shattered Conception is Clinical Psychologist Dr. Alyssa Berlin. Dr. Berlin specializes in pregnancy, postpartum and parenting in Los Angeles. She offers private counseling for women individually and/or with their partners on issues such as anxiousness and emotional fluctuation during pregnancy, postpartum blues and depression, and the complex issues that can arise between and around new and expectant parents.
Dr. Berlin is the creator of The AfterBirth Plan Workshop, a program that prepares couples for what to expect after a baby is born and how to prepare for a physically and emotionally healthy postpartum transition for the baby, for each partner and for the evolving relationship. Also known as the fourth trimester.
Dr. Berlin was a labor support doula, combining her psychological background and her doula training to help women and their partners feel empowered and comfortable in the labor and delivery process, both on a physical and emotional level. Dr. Berlin has a specific expertise addressing anxiety, fear or any other emotional concern that may arise around having a baby before, during and after the birth.
Dr. Berlin is on the Board of Advisors for the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) and is a faculty member of Maternal Mental Health NOW Training Institute. She conducts a multitude of live pregnancy and parenting workshops throughout Southern California and globally via Skype. You can read Dr. Alyssa's blogs on the Huffington Post where she contributes to PBS's "This Emotional Life" project.
Dr. Berlin received her doctorate at Argosy University in Atlanta, GA, went on to become a certified Gottman educator and is a member of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Alyssa and her husband, prenatal chiropractor, Dr. Elliot Berlin live in Los Angeles and are the proud parents of four amazing children.
Website: www.drberlin.com
IG: @dralyssaberlin